Simon Callow Quotes
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
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Think with your whole body.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'
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One thing remaining, infallible, would be Enough.
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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can’t think of it.
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Whatever you've accomplished there's always more to experience.
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I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!
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I want to dominate the man's world.
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To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants... I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?
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Sued King for $100 million, alleging the boxing promoter cheated him out of millions over more than a decade. It was settled out of court for $14 million.
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I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.
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Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
